. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 320 sufficiently for market. We aim at ob- taining all comb honey in this apiary. The sections were nearly all figured white spruce, and the cases finished nicely, and, though they helped to swell the expense fund, I know they had much to do in bringing me the $1,070 income. Conner, Burnett & Co., of Chicago, sold the larger part of this crop. My home apiary, of about the same size, I have no accurate account of, but I know it did not yield me as great profit in money, and among the reasons are, that the location is not as good; also that I did co
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 320 sufficiently for market. We aim at ob- taining all comb honey in this apiary. The sections were nearly all figured white spruce, and the cases finished nicely, and, though they helped to swell the expense fund, I know they had much to do in bringing me the $1,070 income. Conner, Burnett & Co., of Chicago, sold the larger part of this crop. My home apiary, of about the same size, I have no accurate account of, but I know it did not yield me as great profit in money, and among the reasons are, that the location is not as good; also that I did considerable queen rearing here, besides giving much time toother supplies and entertaining visitors. If you will excuse these personal de- tails," which will be of little value to many of our older producers, on grounds given above, I will next month give you an account of my experiments with comb foundation of different kinds, in- cluding a new variety, which, from my present experience, I am very favora- bly impressed with. Dowagiac, Mich., June 14,1880. For the American Bee Journal. Queens Duplicating Themselves. A. F. MOON. It appears, from reading the June number of the Journal, that Mr. Pike wants me to bind myself to pay all ex- penses of the committee in making the test, which is a light and quick job, when they once get in possession of the queen. Did any one ever hear of such a thing ? It is generally supposed that when a man has superior stock that he spares no time to place the same before the public, either with specimens of his stock or by advertising. I offered to pay all the expense in testing this mat- ter, besides offering to pay $ for each of the 12 queens, they to be exact duplicates of the mother queen bred from. But this does not seem to be sat- isfactory, and my old friend thinks lam laboring under mental derangement; also that my answers to his questions are "rather ; No doubt the readers of the Journal are watching to see wher
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